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Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by Pxtl on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:00PM (#6024068)
Action RTS. The problem with the genre spawned by DOTA is that it doesn't have a good name. Calling them DOTAlikes offends fans of various games that sport nearly identical maps, mechanics, and rosters of characters. Calling them ARTS games is silly because they're only RTSish in that they originated on Blizzard's games as map-mods. Riot invented the term MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) which could be applied to every online game ever. Sadly, the worst option (MOBA) seems to be the one that sticks.
Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by d4mi3n on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:36PM (#6024158)
If you want to go deeper, DOTA was actually originally modeled after a custom game in Starcraft (the first one) called "Aeon of Strife".

http://web.archive.org/web/20090624132302/http://www.gotfrag...

Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by xentronium on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:26AM (#6025159)
AOS was actually a term that was used before standalone clones of dota started to appear.